Feeling morally, intellectually confused?
Comments on Secretary of War, Donald Rumsfeld
by Keith Oberman - Countdown -MSNBC-
Rarely, if ever do I quote corporate media. Their biases to the corporate state and its government apparatus are obvious.
But the rising evidence of the Bush regime's fascism has now reached a stage where even those employed by the media arm of the state speak out in fear and warning. This is a hallowed traditions, as noted by Oberman, most recently symbolized by the late Edward R. Morrow in his defense of democracy against the right wing efforts lead by Senator Joseph McCarthy.
I excerpt from his comments of Wednesday, August 30, 2006 and suggest you give immediate heed to the threat to our remaining freedoms. Act now. Demand the immediate resignation of Rumsfeld and and Karl Rove ...
(of Karl Heinz Roverer, the Gauleiter of Oldenburg. Roverer was Reich-Statthalter---Nazi State Party Chairman---for his region. He was also a partner and senior engineer in the Roverer Sud-Deutche Ingenieurburo A. G. engineering firm, which built the Birkenau death camp, at which tens of thousands of Jews, Gypsies, dissidents and other were slaughtered en masse.)
and the immediate impeachment of George Walker Bush and Richard Cheney.
Oberman on Rumsfeld's speech to the American Legion:
"The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack.
Donald H. Rumsfeld is not a prophet.
Mr. Rumsfeld’s remarkable speech to the American Legion yesterday demands the deep analysis—and the sober contemplation—of every American.
For it did not merely serve to impugn the morality or intelligence -- indeed, the loyalty -- of the majority of Americans who oppose the transient occupants of the highest offices in the land. Worse, still, it credits those same transient occupants -- our employees -- with a total omniscience; a total omniscience which neither common sense, nor this administration’s track record at home or abroad, suggests they deserve.
Dissent and disagreement with government is the life’s blood of human freedom; and not merely because it is the first roadblock against the kind of tyranny ,,,
That, about which Mr. Rumsfeld is confused is simply this: This is a Democracy. Still. Sometimes just barely.
And, as such, all voices count -- not just his.
The confusion we -- as its citizens— must now address, is stark and forbidding.
But variations of it have faced our forefathers, when men like Nixon and McCarthy and Curtis LeMay have darkened our skies and obscured our flag. Note -- with hope in your heart — that those earlier Americans always found their way to the light, and we can, too.
The confusion is about whether this Secretary of Defense, and this administration, are in fact now accomplishing what they claim the terrorists seek: The destruction of our freedoms, the very ones for which the same veterans Mr. Rumsfeld addressed yesterday in Salt Lake City, so valiantly fought.
And about Mr. Rumsfeld’s other main assertion, that this country faces a “new type of fascism.”
As he was correct to remind us how a government that knew everything could get everything wrong, so too was he right when he said that -- though probably not in the way he thought he meant it.
This country faces a new type of fascism - indeed."
